Re: Customized Distribution

[Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip kanarip com>]

Ali Majdzadeh wrote:
> Hello All
> Following the instructions mentioned at the following address:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Customization
> I am trying to build a custom distribution based on CentOs 5.01.
> I have performed the following steps:
> $ mount /dev/cdrom /mnt
> $ mkdir ~/mydistro
> $ cp -avp /mnt/* ~/mydistro
> $ mv ~/mydistro/CentOS ~/mydistro/mydistro
> $ cp /mnt/.discinfo ~/mydistro
> $ createrepo -g ~/mydistro/repodata/comps.xml ~/mydistro/mydistro
> $ mkdir -p ~/mydistro/mydistro/base
> $ cp -avp ~/mydistro/repodata/* ~/mydistro/mydistro/base
> $ buildinstall --version 2 --product "MyDistro" --release "MyDistro 
> Linux" --prodpath mydistro ~/mydistro
> $ rm -Rf ~/mydistro/.olddata
> $ pkgorder ~/mydistro i386 mydistro | tee ~/mydistro/pkgfile
> In the last step, i get the following error:
> kernel-xen-2.6.18-53.el5.i686.rpm
> kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-53.el5.i686.rpm
> kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-53.el5.i686.rpm
> kernel-PAE-2.6.18-53.el5.i686.rpm
> kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-53.el5.i686.rpm
> kernel-debug-2.6.18-53.el5.i686.rpm
> kernel-2.6.18-53.el5.i686.rpm
> kernel-doc-2.6.18-53.el5.noarch.rpm
> kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.el5.i386.rpm
> kernel-devel-2.6.18-53.el5.i686.rpm
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/pkgorder", line 164, in ?
>     addGroups(ds, ["core", "base", "text-internet"])
>   File "/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/pkgorder", line 104, in addGroups
>     processTransaction(ds)
>   File "/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/pkgorder", line 76, in processTransaction
>     ds.populateTs(keepold=0)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 150, in 
> populateTs
>     self.downloadHeader(txmbr.po)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 774, in 
> downloadHeader
>     raise Errors.RepoError, saved_repo_error
> yum.Errors.RepoError: failure: 
> CentOS/kudzu-1.2.57.1.15-1.el5.centos.i386.rpm from anaconda: [Errno 
> 256] No more mirrors to try.
>
> Any ideas? Why does it try to check the yum mirrors? Is there anyway to 
> perform the operation locally?
> Thanks in advance.

It does operate locally, it's a general error message.

Please try running:

createrepo -o ~/mydistro/. -g ~/mydistro/repodata/comps.xml \
	~/mydistro/mydistro

Followed by:

pkgorder ~/mydistro/ i386 mydistro | tee ~/mydistro/pkgfile

(there's an additional / at the end of the base location or "topdir")

-Jeroen